Firearm-related mortality: A review of four hundred-forty four deaths in Diyarbakir, Turkey between 1996 and 2001

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 139-145

  Goren, Suleyman ^a   Subasi, Mehmet ^a   Tirasci, Yasar ^a   Kemaloglu, Serdar ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diyarbakir; Fatalities; Firearm; Gunshot; Handgun; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SUICIDE; TERRORISM; TURKEY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0344237223     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.201.139     Document Type: Review

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